Chris Evans gets digitally slimmed to play Captain America

Chris Evans, star of Captain America: The First Avenger describes piling on
the pounds for his leading role as a super hero while at the same time being
digitally slimmed down for the same film.

3:08PM BST 21 Jul 2011

Evans, who has appeared as a superhero before in 2005 film The Fantastic Four, trained every day for three months and constantly ate protein to put on the necessary 15 pounds of muscle to play the role of Captain America in an adaptation of the Marvel comic book story.

The workouts were brutal, said the actor but he claimed the "the worse part was the eating'.

Evan said: "Just constantly ingesting food and ingesting protein, you get to a point where you're so full but you just have to keep eating if you're trying to gain weight."

At the same time the actor's body was digitally modified in order to play the opening sequences of the film in which a bullied orphan, Steve Rogers, is chosen to becomes a test subject for a secret government project during World War II.

The serum transforms him into a strong and able soldier named Captain America who leads the US Army in its fight against the Nazis.